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Anastasia's tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Author: Lowry, Lois
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
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In this compelling mystery with forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in a medieval town.
Author: Griffiths, Elly
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A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing, as far as the icy Bering Sea
Author: Jones, Brendan
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Language: ENG
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Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labe......

A deeply troubled man with a tragic past has lost his purpose in life. He struggles to regain that purpose as well as understand the meaning of past events, in the context of his increasingly disabled reality. God, The Welder takes the reader on a......

A collection of observations, unexpected encounters and too often unspoken, yet universal experiences written in poetic verse. This work is separated into two sections: the first - On Love - speaks to everyday occurrences: introductions, hurts, ......

King Arthur and his court come to life in this four volume omnibus of Howard Pyles 'Legends and Stories of King Arthur.' Included herein are 'The Story of King Arthur and His Knights,' 'The Story of the Champions of the Round Table,' 'The Story of......

Collected here are five adventures from Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and Science Fiction Hall of Fame member, Frederik Pohl. Each of these stories will transport you to an imaginative place and time. Pohl was one of the best sci......

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most ......

On a mission to rescue Allie's mother, Allie and her friends seek out the Resistance hidden in a dangerous region of the galaxy known as The Shift. All anyone knows about The Shift is that no one has ever been seen again once they crossed its ......

Pain. Blood. Sex. The Templars have secrets too. Slightly shaken after Initiation, Julianna resolves to reaffirm her dedication to the cause by throwing herself into her studies. She doesn't have time to adjust to the physical changes, or the bur......

Charlie Francis is a very special yellow Labrador puppy. She trained alongside the Budweiser Clydesdales for the Super Bowl Commercial "Puppy Love". Follow this adorable puppy on one of her many adventures at home on Turtle Ranch in remote Wyoming......

The Highlord had been defeated. Allie and her friends could all return home and pursue lives of peace at long last. Dav and Artus could return to rule the Sy’hli Empire, Tic could return to the jungles of Ayaran, and Allie and Imber could re......

'Cousin Phillis' is a haunting story about Paul Manning, a youth of nineteen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Paul finds hims......

This is a collection of seven short stories by Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known as author of the novel 'Little Women.' In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome s......

With Her in Ourland is the third book in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian trilogy which begins where Moving the Mountain and Herland left off. Gilman masterfully compares our real modern male dominated world with an imaginary perfect society com......

Falling After 9/11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures o......

American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, howe......

“We, like Otto, find our cynicism worn away by Rinpoche’s gentle instruction in the simple but terribly difficult art of letting go, living each moment to the fullest, seeing the sacred in the everyday . . . This brave, meditative auth......